traxxas E-Revo 1:10 brushless
it arrived yesterday, i ordered it as soon as i had sold enough stuff…but it seems like they are in short supply most places, and where its available they want nearly 700 bucks for it….so i ended up canceling the truck at thebarnfloor.com who had it for 609….and went ebay for 660 with 8% bing cashback….making it 608 incl shipping
bought 4 packs of zippy 3S 25C 5000mah batteries and a 8 cell charger for lipo….charger can be programmed in tons of ways, and it does balance charging and all including temp probe
also ordered castle link which allows me to program the ESC, and theres a lot of stuff to change….like braking, acceleration curve, how much initial power it can draw and much more
anyhow the truck….well buggy….no truck…had it not been for the monster truck wheels i would call it a buggy with such a streamlined body and all
its all very nicely laid out…and came completely ready to run…i dropped 8AA into the transmitter, and loaded 2 lipos….and off i went driving a bit carefull….but its very hard not to try see what it can do.
before programming it….it was VERY agressive, launching wheelies as soon as you added more power, allmost hard to keep the front down….it has tons of body roll, and the gear train could sound nicer….but it all works….breakes was set at 50%, which is like a sloppy 1:8 nitro buggy brake, upped it to 75% which is enough to make a stoppie, so i lowered it to 70% which gives lots of breaking, but only does stoppies when max brakes are applied and surface allows it.
this truck should come with a center diff, why they dont dump that 25$ item in there from the start is a mystery to me….with all the wheelie power it would be nice with a centerdiff to transfer the power forward once the front lifts off
second i wish they had used bolts on some of the screws….they just thread into plastic, and is way easy to overtighten, even with great care taken…
third….i would have liked it as a kit….you learn so much from assembling it your self….not i have to guess what to take appart for access a certain part
i got center diff ordered, but it hasnt showed up yet….and i ordered a sway bar kit….this kit is a must ! it helps soooooo much
one tire has allready shredded 🙄 i hope some glue will hold it together so i can get a few more miles out of it
i put my old digital camera on it….it has a lens housing for extra lenses so i though that would protect it …and it did….but the ride was too rough i guess for it to keep recording…it kept ending up with format error….i really wish i had recorded there was some spetacular crashes 🙂
heres the little bit the camera managed to record
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i took it to the nearby park….and kicked up some dust for 40 minutes….wasnt taking it slow but not exactly fast either…40 minutes of runtime, will probably go down to 30 minutes as i remove some of the restrictions in put in the ESC
so far one tire got a tear in it….super glued it, and it seems to hold, they are awefully soft those tires….and baloon easy….gotta get some others, only once did i hear the slipper kick in, when it was on grass and i gave it 100% i suppose thats ok
it is wickedly fast, on grass going pretty fast….punch it and it will wheelie….i was running it in some tree bark mulch and it just tore it up….even long threads of bark etc got torn through….couple of long branches snagged the driveline to the rearwheel…and it has some rubber boots on the knuckle…well it had 🙂
ESC has a pretty open grill……so it sucked in tiny bits of bark…which stopped the fan….of course theres no easy way to remove the grill…but a bit of vacuming got it out and i placed a piece of nylon stocking over it…shouldnt slow air too much, and will keep debris out.
ohh yeah the camera mount is pretty much bust….gotta figure out a way to make a foam roll cage for the camera so it wont get busted up
but this thing is nuts…..alot of fun…..
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Have fun Cyg, but be careful, when my friend got his nitro Revo, he didn’t have it for twenty minutes before he wrapped it around a light pole and broke part of the frame and all the front a arms, it was exspensive, as well as a long process to wait to play with his new toy. Let’s see a backflip, just pin it over a jump, or hit the breaks in the air and do a front flip. 😀 Skate parks are too much fun if you have one nearby. 😀
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try adding tire foam inserts.